saltstack/salt — pull request #1574 by codysoyland (2012-07-03 16:23:17+00:00)
Title: Add ability to sync runners to the salt cache dir.

This adds "saltutil.sync_runners", enabling custom runners to be placed into {{ file_roots }}/_runners/.

Since the runners are only needed on the master, it might make sense to reject this patch in favor of modifying the runner loader to simply load directly from the file_roots, but this patch was simple and consistent with state/module/returner loading. I'm welcome to feedback.